Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a political powerhouse, she can come across as surprisingly insecure. With strangers, her eyes seek out approval. Her charm is palpable, her graciousness as carefully applied as her glue-gun red lipstick. Yet when a journalist prepares to ask her a question, she tenses up as though waiting for a blow. Her answers are often so resolutely bland as to suggest a terror of revealing anything human. Her relentless and self-confessed perfectionism seems to hide a fear of being perceived as something less than the sum of her resume. Why does a woman who has been Secretary...
...Public women in America are wedged between two choices: present yourself in a gender-neutral or slightly 'masculine' way to be taken seriously ('substance'), or deploy your sexuality and charm ('the cunning of woman') to get ahead, but at the cost of not being taken seriously," Song wrote in that introspective piece...
...People will not watch me or Peter Jennings or Dan Rather for our charm or our personality or our wink or our sweater unless they believe that they're being well informed," he said in a previous interview with People magazine...
When a group of alumni moved to prevent the construction of the Humanities Quad in place of the Freshman Union this year, some reminisced wistfully about a time of architectural charm at Harvard, before hyper-professional, post-modern buildings dotted the campus...
...chummy as the author would like us to believe). For eight years their offices were across the hall from each other in the Senate Office building. Kennedy invited Nixon to his staff parties, where the Californian was a conspicuous wallflower. What seemed to come so easily to Kennedy--charm, good humor, small talk--were impossible skills for the perennially awkward Nixon. In the 1960 election both men seemed to underestimate each other. Nixon thought Kennedy too green to be President, while Kennedy could not imagine why any American would prefer Nixon...